The 1.5% of people leave reviews statistic is a bit misleading; it seems as if it is 1.5% of the people who buy any given product, not 1.5% of the population that buys things online. I bet that the number of people who write any online reviews is much larger, and skews toward people with either very positive or very…

A thing that bothers me in dialogues about issues like this, which I’ve read on this site as well as in many other places, is “PoC can’t be racist; they can be prejudiced, but can’t be racist”. This is an example of where PoC absolutely can be racist against other PoC. Is it white supremacy that is the source of the…

This is a hugely controversial ballot proposition in DC right now, requiring everyone be paid DC minimum wage rather than the tipped minimum wage. All of the restaurants near me have a voting no on taking away tips sign, but I live in a popular business district. Who the proposition really helps are the waitstaff at…

Done this with a coffee filter. Slightly more hygienic. Also with a bottle of limoncello where we broke the bottle trying to open it without a corkscrew to strain out the glass shards. It worked.

Hey, I had USPS forge my signature for my laptop not just once, but twice (shipped it out for repairs, issue reappeared shortly after getting it back so sent it out again). Not only did they do that, but they also left the package in the approximately 5% of my front porch that is visible from the street on both…

I’ve consistently had this problem, particularly for Sunday deliveries. I had a package marked as delivered *4* days before I actually got it once (usually it’s 24-48 hours). It’s super annoying, especially when I order things that I actually need in that amount of time— the 4 day delay was for a new laptop charger.

I picture the hip white kids in Portland going to this to assuage their white guilt, paying $10, then going outside and calling the cops on the non-white person moving in next door because they think they’re stealing.

This is one perk that is in huge favor of the Chase Sapphire Reserve— trip delay insurance if your trip is delayed 6+ hours. Would have saved me a ton of pain years ago; haven’t had to use it since getting the card.

I live a couple of blocks from here. These are drunk people cops, generally on bikes, who are stationed on about two blocks of this street every night to deal largely with drunk Beckys. It’s pretty common to see them have to deal with Beckys on the ground that can’t even stand up and walk. And my Saturday/Sunday…

This is my own educational pet peeve, but I’d personally like to ban calculators from classrooms. Kids keep using them as a crutch and fail to understand the actual math (not a school teacher, but I’ve done a decent amount of education-related work and volunteering, in addition to being a TA for college science…

I work in downtown DC and order online almost daily from fast casual places. It’s great because the lines are often out the door during lunch, and most have figured out either a special place to pickup orders where you don’t interact with people or at least have a sign directing you to the cash register for pickup. It…

She’s clearly an awesome student. But there is definitely a game amongst high schools now to make students apply to an absurd number of colleges to inflate the total scholarship value that their students receive. Pretty sure I read this before it was paywalled, but I can’t find an equivalent quickly: https://www.chroni…

The Turkish airlines lounge in Istanbul is similarly swanky. Two levels, food carts all over serving different food, a nap area, pool table, player piano, masseuse (which I somehow missed), golf video game... https://www.huffingtonpost.com/janice-s-lintz/12-reasons-why-the-turkis_b_7308256.html But I now need to fly…

Depends on the airport— sometimes they are the legacy carrier lounges. Dulles, for instance, allows you into Air France, BA, and Turkish with priority pass. In contrast, I prefer the priority pass lounges over the United ones almost universally, because they tend to have more food.

I think that’s true at a lot of similar government facilities. At my last job, I went to practically every intelligence community related facility in DC, and also ate at quite a few of them. CIA cafeteria food was not the best (though there were some normal chains as alternatives to wherever I ate), NGA was terrible.…

I think that’s true at a lot of similar government facilities. At my last job, I went to practically every intelligence community related facility in DC, and also ate at quite a few of them. CIA cafeteria food was not the best (though there were some normal chains as alternatives to wherever I ate), NGA was terrible.…

But they don’t always use the local post office... Sunday deliveries in particular are almost never delivered on time for me, but are always marked in the system as delivered. The last one showed up 5 days late at my front door.

But they don’t always use the local post office... Sunday deliveries in particular are almost never delivered on…

Most commonly accepted definition of space = 100 km. Though that is enough to get above more than 99% of the Earth’s atmosphere...

And your food selection amounts to Doritos, Milanos, Power Bars, and banana-flavored snacks that you can use the future $10 for...

And your food selection amounts to Doritos, Milanos, Power Bars, and banana-flavored snacks that you can use the…

This article should be titled “how to stick out even more as a foreigner”. I’ve traveled a lot, never been mugged. Part of that is blending in and looking like I know where I’m going. Almost universally I am carrying a purse with a zipper, and I make sure the zipper is in front of my body; I normally hold the strap…